'Commentators have said that dealing with allies as equals will make Modi more sensitive.''Remember that the people Modi is dealing with are equally autocratic in their own lairs.' 'Further, Modi......
The writer behind popular British political satire shows 'Yes, Minister' and 'Yes, Prime Minister', Sir Anthony Jay, has passed away at the age of 86 after a long illness. The writer and producer......
The BJP would seem just the sort of party that would embrace Aadhaar. Every other page of its manifesto makes some reference to changing governance in this country. So why is there no......
'In over 47 years as a journalist in Delhi I have never seen a Union Cabinet that is scared of the CBI, it has always been the other way. But whether by happenstance or through deliberate design,......
Is Indian advertising getting comfortable with the greys of life? In the latest Sprite commercial, a guy two-timing his girlfriend confesses with honesty that he is late because he was with another......
Would you rather have$1 millionor a knighthood? One of India's better business schools recently asked hopefuls to write a 300-word essay on this subject. Given the format, there is no "right"......
Set up as early as in 1950 by a mere resolution of the Government of India, it is virtually the mother of all departments within the government. Yet it is without any Constitutional mandate. It......
After giving up the effort to absorb the numbers tumbling out one after another in the finance minister's Budget speech, one thought struck me.Sir Humphrey Appleby does not work in the ministry of......